As lawmakers head into their two week spring break, Sen. John Cornyn is bringing attention to the Texas kids on their own spring breaks who are “shut out” of the White House due to the sequester.

Cornyn’s 90-second video uses testimonies from parents and children from Houston who want to take White House tours during spring break this week. The video quoted disappointed Texans quoted in a story in the Houston Chronicle,

“These kids are being used as pawns in a political game,” Harvin Moore, an HISD board member said in response to Lanier Middle School’s White House tour being canceled.

Last March, the White House had over 95,000 visitors. This year, visitors to the nation’s capital are not allowed to tour the White House.

Cornyn, a Republican from San Antonio, says that by April, 1,200 Texans will have been denied access.